• It's time: Bum Rush the Charts is here.

    After more than a month of intensive work, preparation, marketing, and craziness, Bum Rush the Charts is here. You know what you have to do.

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  • Bum Rush the Charts Thoughts

    John Wall and I did the second beta test episode of Marketing Over Coffee this morning at a Dunkin’ Donuts in Natick. Today’s topic was Bum Rush the Charts, and I thought I’d blog a little about the marketing efforts going on behind the scenes, plus some thoughts so far. First, a huge thank you…

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  • The Fifth Rule of PodCamp

    Chris Brogan and I have been discussing the four rules of PodCamp and have agreed to expand this ruleset to include one more rule for current and future PodCamps, to insure continued trust from the new media community: Rule 5: The financials of a PodCamp must be fully disclosed in an open ledger, except for…

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  • PodCamp on a cruise ship

    I’m going to PodCruise. Hell, I’m sponsoring. This is such an awesome idea – because after you factor in hotel and meals, attending a PodCamp usually costs a fair penny anyway.

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  • MySpace to overtake Pakistan, social infiltration

    At last count this evening, MySpace is about to overtake, in terms of “population” the nation of Pakistan. Now, some would argue that the raw number of MySpace profiles is not an accurate count of how many people actually use the service, but I’d argue that population census surveys aren’t all that accurate anyway –…

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  • Triviality

    Out sick today, but that’s okay. One thing that caught my admittedly drowsy eye was this – be aware of whitespace around words, especially links you create. Which will look better to a search robot, particularly one that isn’t terribly smart? Another post on the Financial Aid Podcast… Another post on the Financial Aid Podcast…

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  • Brand as information source – my drive to PodCamp Toronto

    I had an interesting experience on my way to PodCamp Toronto that I recorded as audio, but unfortunately, the quality of the audio was less than ideal, so I’m turning it into text. When I first entered Canada (thanks to the folks sitting at the table next to us at dinner for clarifying what Canada…

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  • New Work Post: Matrix 2.0 and what the Web says about you

    New post over at my work site, the Financial Aid Podcast. Let me know what you think in the comments over there.

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  • Newest Twitter Pipe: URL catchall

    There are an awful lot of URLs from friends that go by in Twitter. I’d like to not have to go through all my archives just to find them. This, then, is a Yahoo pipe that does a content analysis, permits only items with the https:// URL handler, and exports as RSS, which I then…

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  • Secure your brand on Twitter RIGHT NOW

    Audio, one of my Twitter friends, pointed out that my Twitter profile for work, financialaidpodcast, is #3 on Google for the term “financialaidpodcast”. This makes total sense – Twitter is perfect Google ambrosia – rapid, fresh, original content, the kind of food that Googlebots relish. This, then, is something of a red alert – with…

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